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How We Understand Others - Philosophy and Social Cognition (Hardcover)
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How We Understand Others - Philosophy and Social Cognition (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Philosophy
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In our everyday social interactions, we try to make sense of what
people are thinking, why they act as they do, and what they are
likely to do next. This process is called mindreading. Mindreading,
Shannon Spaulding argues in this book, is central to our ability to
understand and interact with others. Philosophers and cognitive
scientists have converged on the idea that mindreading involves
theorizing about and simulating others' mental states. She argues
that this view of mindreading is limiting and outdated. Most
contemporary views of mindreading vastly underrepresent the
diversity and complexity of mindreading. She articulates a new
theory of mindreading that takes into account cutting edge
philosophical and empirical research on in-group/out-group
dynamics, social biases, and how our goals and the situational
context influence how we interpret others' behavior. Spaulding's
resulting theory of mindreading provides a more accurate,
comprehensive, and perhaps pessimistic view of our abilities to
understand others, with important epistemological and ethical
implications. Deciding who is trustworthy, knowledgeable, and
competent are epistemically and ethically fraught judgments: her
new theory of mindreading sheds light on how these judgments are
made and the conditions under which they are unreliable. This book
will be of great interest to students of philosophy of psychology,
philosophy of mind, applied epistemology, cognitive science and
moral psychology, as well as those interested in conceptual issues
in psychology.
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